Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for Slavonian. Search instead for flavonolignan.
Jump To:
  • Slavonian
    Slavonian
    adjective
    of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
  • slavonian
    slavonian
    adjective
    of or relating to Slavonia, a region in Croatia, or its inhabitants

Slavonian

American  
[sluh-voh-nee-uhn] / sləˈvoʊ ni ən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.

  2. Slavic.


noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Slavonia.

  2. a Slav.

slavonian British  
/ sləˈvəʊnɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Slavonia, a region in Croatia, or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Slavonia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Slavonian

First recorded in 1570–80; Slavoni(a) + -an

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

He ages the wine in foudres, big old barrels of French and Slavonian oak.

From New York Times Mar. 7, 2019

The quaint town in the eastern Slavonian region of Croatia is one of two largest areas in the republic populated predominantly by Serbs, which gives it a significance disproportionate to its size and population.

From Time Magazine Archive

Servian song resembles the tune of the violin; Old Slavonian, that of the organ; Polish, that of the guitar. 

From Servian Popular Poetry by Bowring, John

Then I began at the top of my voice, in impassioned style in German, an address about matters and things in general, intermingled with insane quotations from Latin, Slavonian, anything. 

From Memoirs by Leland, Charles Godfrey

But on the wide Slavonian lands and far beyond them one would find the sturdy farmers imitating his new methods—his own estate was so large that he paid 35,000 florins a year in taxes.

From The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 by Baerlein, Henry

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training